Vineyard Hawk View Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/5/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You can park off the road on a farm road into the woods. The cache is less than 200 feet from the road. It is located in a 1 quart plastic container. This is private land and cache is placed with permission of the landowner who also owns the large vineyard.

You can park off the road on a farm road into the woods. The cache is less than 200 feet from the road. It is located in a 1 quart plastic container. This is private land and cache is placed with permission of the landowner who also owns the large vineyard.
The skies between the top of this hill and Lake Erie serve as a major bird migration flyway in the spring. Air currents from the Ohio Valley carry birds along the lake shore towards Canada. Ripley is a major hawk migration watching place and the local club has 3 “hawk watch sites.” One is just down the hill in the middle of the grape vineyard; the other 2 are in the lake plain and along the lake shore. Thousand of hawks may be identified and counted by watchers in a day.
I love this road for its geographic and scenic features – Lake Erie, only 3 or 4 miles away, is elevation of approx 570 ft., Route 20 at 750 ft, and this cache at 1340 ft and the top of the hill at 1450 ft. At the top of the hill you are truly in the Allegheny Plateau and the rainfall there flows south to the Allegheny River, to the Ohio River, to the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. On the north side of the hill where the cache is the rainfall flows to Lake Erie, that Lake Ontario and via the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean. This is the continental divide of major water sheds.
The view north over the vineyards, lake plain and to Lake Erie are beautiful. You will be looking at a narrow lake plain region with Rt. 5 (the Seaway Trail), the I90 Thruway, major rail road lines (lots of long train passings) and Route 20 all funneled through the area.
A good family geocache but not suitable for nighttime. One of the “Vineyard Series” planned for the ’68 mile grape escarpment scenic drive trail from Shades Beach, Harborcreek, PA to Sunset Bay Beach in Hanover, NY ”

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